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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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